CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Wednesday 18th June 2014 |
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9:00 |
Welcome and conference overview |
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9:15 |
Keynote: Statistical Approaches to Open-domain Spoken Dialogue System Steve Young |
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10:15 |
Break |
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Oral Session 1: Situated Spoken Dialog Systems in Motion Chair: Michael Johnston |
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10:45 |
Crowdsourcing Street-level Geographic Information Using a Spoken Dialogue System Raveesh Meena, Johan Boye, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson |
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11:10 |
Out-of-Domain Spoken Dialogs in the Car: A WoZ Study Sven Reichel, Jasmin Sohn, Ute Ehrlich, André Berton and Michael Weber |
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11:35 |
Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour Teruhisa Misu, Antoine Raux, Rakesh Gupta and Ian Lane The copyright of the video belongs to Honda Research Institute (HRI) and HRI allows SIGDIAL to disseminate the video as a part of the proceedings online and on flash drives. However, the video is NOT redistributable. |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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Oral Session 2: Adaptive Dialog Systems Chair: Kai Yu |
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13:00 |
Information Navigation System Based on POMDP that Tracks User Focus Koichiro Yoshino and Tatsuya Kawahara |
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13:25 |
Alexandria Vail and Kristy Boyer |
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13:50 |
Probabilistic Human-Computer Trust Handling Florian Nothdurft, Felix Richter and Wolfgang Minker |
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14:15 |
Poster Madness Session Chair: Rebecca Passonneau |
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14:35 |
Poster Session with Coffee |
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Learning Non-cooperative Dialogue Behaviours Ioannis Efstathiou and Oliver Lemon |
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Improving Classification-Based Natural Language Understanding with Non-Expert Annotation Fabrizio Morbini, Kenji Sagae and Eric Forbell |
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Yuya Chiba, Masashi Ito, Takashi Nose and Akinori Ito |
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Alex: Bootstrapping a Spoken Dialogue System for a New Domain by Real Users Ondřej Dušek, Ondřej Plátek, Lukáš Žilka and Filip Jurčíček |
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InproTKs: A Toolkit for Incremental Situated Processing Casey Kennington, Spyros Kousidis and David Schlangen |
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Back to the Blocks World: Learning New Actions through Situated Human-Robot Dialogue Lanbo She, Shaohua Yang, Yu Cheng, Yunyi Jia, Joyce Chai and Ning Xi |
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An Easy Method to Make Dialogue Systems Incremental Hatim Khouzaimi, Romain Laroche and Fabrice Lefevre |
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Free On-line Speech Recogniser Based on Kaldi ASR Toolkit Producing Word Posterior Lattices Ondřej Plátek and Filip Jurčíček |
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Oral Session 3: Dialog Act Modelling Chair: Wolfgang Minker |
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16:15 |
Combining Task and Dialogue Streams in Unsupervised Dialogue Act Models Aysu Ezen-Can and Kristy Boyer |
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16:40 |
Dialogue Act Modeling for Non-Visual Web Access Vikas Ashok, Yevgen Borodin, Svetlana Stoyanchev and IV Ramakrishnan |
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17:05 |
Tatsuro Oya and Giuseppe Carenini |
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17:30 18:30 |
Announcements and business meeting End of business meeting |
Thursday 19th June 2014 |
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9:00 |
Lillian Lee |
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10:00 |
Break |
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Oral Session 4 Discourse Chair: Diane Litman |
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10:20 |
Addressing Class Imbalance for Improved Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova |
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10:45 |
The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue Julian Schlöder and Raquel Fernandez |
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11:10 |
In-depth Exploitation of Noun and Verb Semantics to Identify Causation in Verb-Noun Pairs Mehwish Riaz and Roxana Girju |
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11:35 |
Identifying Narrative Clause Types in Personal Stories Reid Swanson, Elahe Rahimtoroghi, Thomas Corcoran and Marilyn Walker |
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12:00 |
Lunch and sponsor talks |
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13:50 |
Poster and Demo Madness Session Chair: Amy Isard |
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INLG Joint Session Talks (in separate proceedings) Chair: Kathy McCoy |
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14:15 |
Crowdsourcing Language Generation Templates for Dialog Systems Margaret Mitchell, Dan Bohus and Ece Kamar |
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14:40 |
Generating Effective Referring Expressions Using Charts Nikolaos Engonopoulos and Alexander Koller |
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15:05 |
Modeling Blame to Avoid Positive Face Threats in Natural Language Generation Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz |
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15:30 |
INLG Joint Session - Panel |
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16:00 |
Poster and Demonstration Session with Coffee |
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Evaluating a Spoken Dialogue System that Detects and Adapts to User Affective States Diane Litman and Katherine Forbes-Riley |
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Initiative Taking in Negotiation Elnaz Nouri and David Traum |
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Knowledge Acquisition Strategies for Goal-Oriented Dialog Systems Aasish Pappu and Alexander Rudnicky |
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Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations Junyi Jessy Li and Ani Nenkova |
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Interaction Quality Estimation in Spoken Dialogue Systems Using Hybrid-HMMs Stefan Ultes and Wolfgang Minker |
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Learning to Re-rank for Interactive Problem Resolution and Query Refinement Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy and Charles Elkan |
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Aspectual Properties of Conversational Activities Rebecca J. Passonneau, Boxuan Guan, Cho Ho Yeung, Yuan Du and Emma Conner |
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Detecting Inappropriate Clarification Requests in Spoken Dialogue Systems Alex Liu, Rose Sloan, Mei-Vern Then, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Julia Hirschberg and Elizabeth Shriberg |
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Manuel Giuliani, Thomas Marschall and Amy Isard |
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Sudeep Gandhe and David Traum |
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A Demonstration of Dialogue Processing in SimSensei Kiosk Fabrizio Morbini, David DeVault, Kallirroi Georgila, Ron Artstein, David Traum and Louis-Philippe Morency |
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MVA: The Multimodal Virtual Assistant Michael Johnston, John Chen, Patrick Ehlen, Hyuckchul Jung, Jay Lieske, Aarthi Reddy, Ethan Selfridge, Svetlana Stoyanchev, Brant Vasilieff and Jay Wilpon |
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The PARLANCE Mobile Application for Interactive Search in English and Mandarin Helen Hastie, Marie-aude Aufaure, Panos Alexopoulos, Hugues Bouchard, Catherine Breslin, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Nina Dethlefs, Milica Gasic, James Henderson, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu, Peter Mika, Nesrine Ben Mustapha, Tim Potter, Verena Rieser, Blaise Thomson, Pirros Tsiakoulis, Yves Vanrompay, Boris Villazon-Terrazas, Majid Yazdani, Steve Young and Yanchao Yu |
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18:00 |
Poster session ends |
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19:00 |
Banquet |
Friday 20th June 2014 |
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DSTC Special Session Chair: Alan Black |
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8:45 |
The Second Dialog State Tracking Challenge Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Jason Williams |
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9:07 |
Optimizing Generative Dialog State Tracker via Cascading Gradient Descent Byung-Jun Lee, Woosang Lim, Daejoong Kim and Kee-Eung Kim |
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9:23 |
Web-style Ranking and SLU Combination for Dialog State tracking Jason D Williams |
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9:39 |
Word-Based Dialog State Tracking with Recurrent Neural Networks Matthew Henderson, Blaise Thomson and Steve Young |
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9:55 |
Comparative Error Analysis of Dialog State Tracking Ronnie Smith |
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10:15 |
Extrinsic Evaluation of Dialog State Tracking and Predictive Metrics for Dialog Policy Optimization Sungjin Lee |
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10:35 |
Poster Session with Coffee |
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The SJTU System for Dialog State Tracking Challenge 2 Kai Sun, Lu Chen, Su Zhu and Kai Yu |
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Markovian Discriminative Modeling for Dialog State Tracking Hang Ren, Weiqun Xu and Yonghong Yan |
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Sequential Labeling for Tracking Dynamic Dialog States Seokhwan Kim and Rafael E. Banchs |
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Dialog State Tracking by Decomposing the States Wencan Luo and Diane Litman |
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12:00 |
Best paper award ceremony and closing |